Game-table.



PATENTBD MAY 19, 1903.

- J. L. PATTON & A. P. HOGHWALT.

GAME TABLE.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 30. 1902.

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PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES LAWRENCE PATTON AND ALBERT F. HOOHWALT, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 728,? 56, dated May 19, 1903.

Application filed September 30. 1902 To all whom it may concern..-

Beit known that we,JAMES LAWRENCE PAT. TON and ALBERT F. HOCHWALT, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Tables, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to game-tables; and the invention consists of a novel and improved game-table involving new details with peculiar arrangement thereof, which we will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this'specification, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating our invention, and Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on line X X looking in direction of the arrow.

In carrying out our invention we employ a table A, supported atinclined position by any suitable legs adapted to be folded, whereby when the table is not in use it may be stored away upon edge, requiring minimum space. The end B of the table is supported higher than the end 0. In further describing our invention we will hereinafter refer to the former as the upper end of the table and to the latter as the lower end of the table. At the edge of the table we arrange an upright guard-rail D, extending around from a point E on one side to a point E on the opposite side. The lower and O of the table from E to E is provided with a somewhat similar guard-rail, forming a continuation of the rail D, but made wider than the latter, as indicated at F. On the inner sideof the lower guard-rail we form pockets G, numbered as indicated. In further constructing our table we provide alleyways H, formed by an inner rail I in connection with the rail D, and the said alleyways extend along the edge of the table to an upper space J between the semicircular upper part of the rail I and that portion of the rail D at the upper end of the table.

D denotes exits from the alleyways, which will be referred to farther on.

L indicates openings or pigeonholes in the upper or circular part of the rail I, and M designates upright wickets located above the alleyway-exits. The wickets and also the said pigeonholes are numbered as shown.

. Serial No. 125,431. (No model.)

In the center of the table and near its upper end we stencil or otherwise form a dial N, having numbered sections, and at the center of the dial arrange an upright post 0, adapted to provide pivotal elevated support for an indicator P. One end of the indicator P may be turned downward or otherwise adapted to provide support for a head Q, designed to be supported just free of the table. It should be understood that the whole indicator P, save the head Q, must be sufficiently high to provide free passage under it for the cue-ball.

In playing this game the cue-ball is placed on a spot (indicated by the letter X) near the lower end of the table. The ball may then be struck with a cue, endeavoring to make it strike the head Q on the indicator P, thereby causing it to revolve, and also at the same time try to send the ball through one of the pigeonholes L. Should the ball pass through a pigeonhole, it enters the space J and passes down one of the alleyways H by gravity and out through the exit D toward the pockets G at the lower end of the table. Should the ball after striking the indicator-head Q fail to pass through one of the pigeonholes, it will roll down the table by gravity toward the pockets G and in so doing probably pass through one of the wickets M. stoodthat when the cue-ball passes through a pigeonhole, a wicket, or into a pocket the player counts the number indicated thereat, and also should the head on the indicator be struck, causing it to revolve, the number on the dial at which it comes to rest is also counted.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Inoombination with agame-table of the character described having pigeonholes at its upper end communicating with side returnalleyways, a dial on the table located just below the said pigeonholes, an indicator having pivotal movement upon a suitable support projecting from the center of the said dial and arranged at an elevation to provide unobstructed passage of the cue-ball under it, and a head on one end of the said indicator supported at a lower plane, just free of the table and adapted, at any position of rest, to be struck by the rolling cue-ball when the It is underlatter is sent up the table from a fixed point I ble, an inner rail consisting of parallel ends near the lower end of the table, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a game-table of the character described, inner and outer guardrails forming an upper enlarged space and return side alleyways, a semicircular upper portion in the inner guard-rail having pigeonholes through it, a pivotal indicator located just below the said pigeonholes and supported at an elevation above the surface of the table providing unobstructed passage for the cue-ball under it, save at one end carrying a head in position adapted to be struck by the cue-ball, when said head is at point of rest around the dial, and wickets located above the alleyway-exits in position adapted for the cue-ball to pass through one of them upon its return movement down the table substantially as described.

3. In combination, an inclined game-table, a guard-rail around the whole edge of the taand an upper semicircular portion having pigeonholes through it, an open space at the upper end of the table, side alleyways communicating with the said open space and havin lower exits, an indicator located just below the said pigeonholes supported above travel of the cue-ball, and thereby adapted to provide unobstructed passage below it, save at one end carrying a head just free of the table and adapted to be struck by the cueball with the said head at any pointof rest around the dial, wickets ranging across the table in position just above the exits at the lower ends of the said alleyways, and pockets below the said exits-at the lower end of the table substantially as described.

JAMES LAWRENCE PATTON. ALBERT F. HOCHWAL'I. Witnesses:

. JOHN J. HALL,

E. "A. HOCHWALT. 

